Women's History
friendship album, poem, missionary, India, religion, family
New YorkPrinting & Publishing: J C Riker, [1840]. "To the Dear Brother or Sister to whom this album may be...
Price: $475.00
Holographic Will, Original Artwork, Calligraphy
Utica, New York: 1840-1861. The friendship album of Miss. Anna Quinn (dates unknown) of Utica, New York, exceptional for its...
Price: $550.00
Printing and Typography, Ohio
[Lebanon, Ohio]: 1846. Printed invitation (2.75" by 6.5" wove paper slip, with typographical border) to the funeral of Mrs. Nancy...
Price: $100.00
Camp Fire Girls, Scouts, Youth Groups, Diversity and Inclusion, Women...
New York, New York: Camp Fire Girls, 1920s. A gathering of nine (9) items from the 1920s relating to an...
Price: $300.00
Women and Beauty, Hair makes a difference, scalp treatment for...
Springfield MA: John H. Breck , Proctor & Gamble, etc. 1920s-1950s. A small collection of seven booklets stressing the importance...
Price: $500.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Childhood Ephemera, Social History, Women's History
New York: Clark, Austin & Smith, 1858-1860. A 5 5/8" tall paper doll. The arms, head and upper torso are...
Price: $400.00
Paper Doll, Social History, Entertainment, Women's History
Chicago: Merrill Pub. Co., n.d. c1940s. A 13" x 11" uncut paper doll book with three Greer Garson paper dolls...
Price: $95.00
bookseller label, bookseller tag, bookshop, library, female society, printing
[1825-1920]. A collection of twenty-two (22) bookseller labels (also called Bookseller Tags) from the 18th and 19th centuries. One of...
Price: $425.00
Fashion, Department Stores
Boston, Massachusetts: A. Shuman & Company, 1880. Handbill advertising the Grand Re-Opening of Boston department store A. Shuman & Company...
Price: $150.00
Made by Hand, Parlor Game, Memory and Concentration
A handmade parlor game housed in a blue paper covered pressed board box not original to the set. The top...
Price: $650.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: 1870s. A handmade paper doll with original watercolor artwork of a young Victorian woman in day wear, evening...
Price: $375.00
Made by Hand, Love and Friendship, Paper with a Secret
[1880]. A 2.25" x 2.25" hand made "cobweb" or "beehive", an applied scrap of a cherub holding a bird anchoring...
Price: $225.00
Advertising, Fashion, Women, Business
Cincinnati, Ohio: Queen City Suspender Company, [1880s?]. Advertisement for Mrs. Smith's Skirt Suspenders, sold by the Queen City Suspender Co...
Price: $175.00
Postcards, Political Cartoons
United States: 1908. Pre-WWI patriotic postcard with an image of a young woman wearing the stars and stripes alongside the...
Price: $65.00
Beauty, Anti-Aging, Hollywood
Trenton, New Jersey: Wings Products Co., 1940s. "Lines Vanish" and "Youth Returns" with Hollywood Wings, a box of "medicated frown...
Price: $150.00
Public Health, Breast Cancer
Silver Spring, Maryland: American Cancer Society, c.1975. Printed tri-fold pamphlet (9" by 3.75" folded) with an illustrated three-step guide to...
Price: $85.00
Women's Work, Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, Gender Roles
[1860]. The 6.75" paper doll is printed on polished paper applied to card stock. Her occupation is yarn winding. Each...
Price: $2,350.00
Gender Roles, Women's History
Dansville NY: Fowler & Whitaker, Dry Goods, [1874]. Palmer's Patent 1869. A 7 3/4" x 4" A leaflet promoting the...
Price: $115.00
drawings, watercolor, poetry, poem, flower, plants, fairy tales, retellings
c1880. 68 pg journal filled with poetry and watercolors of flora. There are a total of 25 poems in the...
Price: $525.00
Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, Social History, Boxed Set
Germany: Unknown, c1850s. A 6 1/2" x 4 1/2" paper covered pressed board box with applied hand colored litho cover...
Price: $725.00
Women's Lingerie
Boston, Massachusetts: La Jeanne, 1930s. Photographically illustrated advertising pamphlet for La Jeanne brand lace control garments, including prices and fabrics...
Price: $115.00
Sisterhoods,Fraternal Organizations,History of Women in Maine
Berwick, Maine: Pythian Sisterhood, 1897. Letterhead illustrated with the seal of the Pythian Sisterhood, a female auxiliary to the Knights...
Price: $100.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Victorian Fashion,Girlhood,Hand-colored Paper Dolls
[Germany?]: 1860s. A lovely 4.5" paper doll depicting a fashionable young woman, housed in her original box with eleven (11)...
Price: $1,500.00
advertising, women's history, beauty, make-up, Lady Claire Face Powder, face...
Toledo, OH: Lorenz & Co., [1887-1890]. A small collection of four (4) pieces of materials relating to Lorenz & Co...
Price: $150.00